Thursday, August 29, 2024

Beneath These Cursed Stars by Lexi Ryan - OPTIONAL

Beneath These Cursed Stars (These Hollow Vows #2) by Lexi Ryan
. 432 pages. HarperTeen, 2024. $18

Language: R (29 swears, 1 ‘f'); Mature Content: PG-13 (fondling); Violence: PG-13 (bloody stabbing)

BUYING ADVISORY: HS - OPTIONAL

AUDIENCE APPEAL: SEVERAL

17yo Jasalyn is scarred inside and out by the torture and imprisonment she endured from Mordeus. 19yo Felicity is an Echo who has been prophesied as the killer of her birth father, Erith. Jasalyn needs to heal but also move forward with her princess duties so she’s sent to the Wild Fae King Misha to learn to protect herself. Felicity needs to find a portal to defeat Erith before he kills her. Jasalyn trades places with Felicity. Jasalyn will stay with Hale Kendrick, Felicity’s adopted brother while Felicity stays with King Misha and looks for the portal and pretending to be Jasalyn the entire time with her Echo abilities. Lives become even more complicated when romantic feelings arise.

I enjoyed the fact that this book is the beginning of a new series but set a few years later in the same realm as These Hollow Vows duology by Lexi Ryan. The complexity of the two characters of Jasalyn and Felicity taking each other’s places is written well. The ending made me want the next book immediately. Ethnicity includes fair, olive, brown, ebony, pale, dark, golden, ivory, and light brown skin tones.

LynnDell Watson, DHS Librarian, Delta, Utah 

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